“The Son of God” (Mark 1:10-11)

↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) A few years ago, an international student attended our Bible study. He enjoyed eating with our group and discussing the Bible, but he was firm in his beliefs as a Muslim. He said, “How can a great God have sexual relations with a human? It’s blasphemy.” He had heard that Christians believe in three gods: God the Father, Mother Mary, and Jesus the Son—which, as you know, is inaccurate. So I explained what we actually believe. Like him, you too may have wondered, “What does it mean to say Jesus is ‘the

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:7)

　↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” (Jeremiah 1:7) From this week, we will begin a series on the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah was a prophet who lived during the time when Judah, the kingdom in southern Israel, was conquered. The book begins with this verse: “The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.” Anathoth was a village about 4 kilometers north of Jerusalem. Jeremiah grew up in this poor village

“See, I will create new heavens and a new earth” (Isaiah 65:17) – Part 2

↓Audio link to the sermon:(1st worship recording) (If you can’t listen on your iPhone, please update your iOS) This is my 23rd message on the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament. Today I will continue to speak on last week’s topic. That is, God’s 3-part response to Isaiah’s prayer in chapter 65. The first part is this: God said that Gentiles will hear the good news and be included as his people. The second part is that the people of Israel will not be spared from judgment. Yet there will be a remnant of Israelites whom God will bless. Third, God declared that he will create new heavens and